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The eyes inside the castle walls see things and the ears inside the castle walls hear things.

After the Ole Miss loss, Mack called former All American Longhorn Rod Babers into his office and told him that he was to speak nothing but the company line in his role as UT radio guy or he would be fired. When Babers pushed back and told him that his job was to call things as he sees them, he was given an ultimatum by Mack.

When Babers told Mack that he was a Lifetime Longhorn and wanted the program to succeed, but wouldn't lie to other Longhorns if something was going poorly and it needed to be discussed. Babers told Mack that he bleeds orange, but he's not anyone's hired stooge.

Mack then fired Babers on the spot and told him he would not be returning next year in his role as sideline guy and would not be allowed back into the inner circle when he turns things around. Babers then told Mack that the mere fact that he had time in his day to have the meeting between the two of them when his team had been whipped the previous two weeks was proof that his focus was twisted and that he didn't have what it takes to turn it around. He was then told to leave Mack's office.

For the man on the left and the man on your right. The 2013 Texas Longhorns.

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If Mack worried this much about his own team he may have better results, instead he worries about what's said about him and then goes on record denying that fact.

Bryan Jones was correct in saying that Mack doesn't know how to fix things. How is he going to make adjustments when he only knows how to be a CEO and not coach Xs and Os? He hired the guys to coach the Xs and Os and that is on him. Problem is that HE now knows that and that's on him, thus you see him scrambling....

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Something is going on with Mack and former players in the media b/c one particular guy that gets bagged on for not being very good on air on this site has been VERY pro Mack and the team since they lost to BYU especially on facebook. This guy never really posted about the team or Mack until a couple of weeks ago and it's been all fluff and pompoms since.